Hillary Clinton Quotes

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

Balance is a good thing - checks and balances are a good thing.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

The executive power is better to be trusted when it has no screen. Sir, we have a responsibility in the person of our President; he cannot act improperly, and hide either his negligence or inattention; he cannot roll upon any other person the weight of his criminality; no appointment can take place without his nomination; and he is responsible for every nomination he makes…. Add to all this, that officer is placed high, and is possessed of power far from being contemptible, yet not a single privilege is annexed to his character; far from being above the laws, he is amenable to them in his private character as a citizen, and in his public character by impeachment

No sitting administration likes to see itself studied; no administration welcomes investigations.

When the President of the United States breaks the law he must be held accountable. That is why I am introducing today a resolution to censure George W. Bush…. At the very heart of our constitution is the assumption that some members of the government will do wrong, and when they do, others in the government must do right…. The President has broken the law. Congress must act…. Our job is not to stand up and cheer when the President breaks the law.

It is not the Congress's job to rubber stamp bad decisions [of the President.]

It is against the enterprising ambition of this department [the legislature] that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.

Separation of powers was designed to affix responsibility, not to evade it.

The separation of powers of the Constitution almost encourages leaks.

What are we to do? Sit back and let the President police himself?

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.

There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.

Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.